Category Archives: daily updates

defending my people

Posted on November 17, 2016 by dichroic

I promised myself to quit engaging on FB and on political topics in general because of the high blood pressure – but maybe writing it out is better than thinking it over and letting it fester. I’m beginning to get … Continue reading →

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too bad Chanukah is very late this year

Posted on November 16, 2016 by dichroic

Because I’m feeling the need for those small lights in the darkness that send a message two thousand years old: “You did your worst, but we’re still here.” Diwali has come and gone – any light it left behind has … Continue reading →

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more personal stuff

Posted on November 15, 2016 by dichroic

I promise not to talk about the Electoral college in this one, or even about the election itself except obliquely. I’m going to have to go back to my doctor, I think (my GP). Lately my blood pressure has seemed … Continue reading →

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a wider view

Posted on November 3, 2016 by dichroic

Maybe from here on to the election I should just stick to posting quotes that touch me – I’ve been coming across a bunch lately, though not all of them work out of context. Tonight seems to be the night … Continue reading →

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Are you better off now?

Posted on October 21, 2016 by dichroic

An election-year question: Just out of curiosity, and I’m especially aiming this question to people living in the US: Would you say that you are better off than you were 8 years ago, or worse? Would you say that the … Continue reading →

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I can’t crochet, but I can crotchet with the best of them

Posted on October 17, 2016 by dichroic

In less than half a year now, I’ll be entering my sixth decade, and I have figured out what I want for a birthday gift. (Aside from world peach. I would always like world peace for a present, but it … Continue reading →

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catch-up compendium

Posted on October 14, 2016 by dichroic

Oops, yup, way too long since I’ve updated. What’s been happening? Let’s see, last week I spent a couple of days in Houston. Unfortuntely I was there for only two nights, sans car, on the wrong side of town, so … Continue reading →

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high-tech sleeping

Posted on September 21, 2016 by dichroic

Sleeping is getting way too high tech lately. Yesterday I had an especially hard workout – 11km, including a warm-up followed by 2 sets of 2km at aerobic threshold, then 3km at marathon pace. So I actually headed up to … Continue reading →

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confused

Posted on September 12, 2016 by dichroic

This latest thing with athletes kneeling during the US national anthem confuses the heck out of me. I support anyone’s right to protest peacefully, of course, as a form of free speech; it’s just that I’d have thought that kneeling … Continue reading →

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mortality, again, and math

Posted on September 9, 2016 by dichroic

That whole mortality thing yesterday had me thinking about math and time. My online friend’s husband did die yesterday, and she mentioned that they’d had 61 years together. My parents had 50, and one set of grandparents were just shy … Continue reading →

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